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You might’ve already seen this 2004 BBC documentary about Tetris a while ago, if not go have a look it’s on youtube now!

My_project_final_final_v3.cgr …sounds familiar? Head over to the 43folders site for a quick rundown on best practices for file naming.

Devbump? It’s just like digg but then for game developers, subscribe to their RSS feed or register to write you own stories.

Another fine gamasutra article, this time it’s a series about Multiplayer Level Design, this is part 1 of 3.

If you ever see a line like this “Added Massive Streaming Ad Support” in a patch readme file be warned. These guys started a packet dumper while playing SWAT4, behold the XML soup that went back and forth to the ad-servers.

Article about some of the “Not-So-Bright Ideas from the World of Gaming.”

Hey hang on isn’t that made with Quest3D? It’s a capture from Tale of Tales‘ “The Endless Forest”.

Happy reading,

the Quest3D|Log team

Another update to the CGR exporter.
Get the new version right here!

Bit from the forum:

In new version:
- Better mesh optimization
- Support check box in maps slots

Thanks Artur, keep it up.

For those of us already using Quest3D 3.5.5 there is a new version of the 3d max exporter. This version only works for Quest3D version 3.5.5!

Get the new version right here!

And For the registry hackers amongst us, quoting Tom Beddell:

I have multiple versions of Quest installed. You have to install the version you want to export to last, so that the registry points to the right version I suppose.

Today a Public Beta has been released of Quest3D, we welcome version 3.5.5 beta! Mind you it’s still beta but as far as I can tell a very stable one!

Download of the beta:
quest3d_3_5_5_beta.exe

and the accompanying SDK:
Q3DSDK355Beta.exe

And have a look at the “crude” fix list here

Please everyone who can spare some time try out your projects in this version and let us know through forum about any issue.

First off, some videos of various Quest3D project we found on YouTube. No need to download the big DVD from the Quest3D website… but, unfortunately, these aren’t as detailed. These were uploaded by our East-European colleges at http://quest3d.pl/ .

Tools

ShowCase - Since Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7, I envied their tab-view thingy, where you can see the content of all tabs at once. This is the add-on for Firefox, compatible with 2.0.

PatchMaker - A tool to create patches for your Quest3D projects as well.

Resources

The Game Programming Wiki! A wiki full of tutorials and articles about programming (basics).

Articles

Nintendo, AILive Team For Wii Remote AI Tool, the technique behind the nintendo Wii controller.

Completely Eliminate Texture Seams with 3dsMax

Quest3D|log goes multimedia (remember that ninties buzz-word?), and we start off with an embarrassing video of a water taxi magically making a huge container ship crash.

Enjoy, and listen to the cute giggles near the end.

The competition for the 2007 version looks like it’s catching up.

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This new release now comes with a developer’s Manual, Super Sets, over a hundred templates, several Skydome types and improved support for reflections.

Of interest is also the rumour that there might be some kind of channelgroup protection system in the next release of Quest3D. This protection system allows channelgroup hiding which enables Quest3D users to create and sell modules like Qumulus.

New (beta) version of the Quest3D 3.5 3dsMax exporter available. Now also comes in Max 9 flavor!

Changes:

• Version for Max 9.0 available
• Loading dll error fixed

You can download the max9 or max8 version.

read more on the forums

read more on the wiki

Words. For. The. Weekend.

Hopefully another informative read.

Articles

Game-industrie stevent af op record-jaar - The first article in Dutch so far, a little news snippet about the game industry heading towards a record-breaking year in terms of sales.
Nice books on the game industry - Related Quest if you want to develop anything close to a game with it.
Don’t Listen To The Fans - Article why not to listen to your ‘fans’ if you have created a game. That’s right. NOT listen to your fans. Quite a fun read.
Women in Gaming - The hardcore gamers’ worst nightmare. A woman. Playing a game :).
5 Principles For Programming - I think some or all may be applicable to Quest3D too, nice read nonetheless.

Tools

Taskbar Shuffle - Tools that allows you to shuffle the programs open on your taskbar.
Launchy - Another GTD and productivity tool, it reduces the times you have to point in the direction of that strange ’start’ button, instead just type what you need and it will open de appropriate tool, like Quest3D 3.5.
Color palette generator - Create a color palette using an image.

Tutorials

How to Create Professional HDR Images - Do you own a camera that allows you to set exposure manually then you are a few steps from creating your first HDR image with nothing but Photoshop CS2

Resources

The Cloud Appreciation Society - So whaddayouknow there is one. Now we can all be experts on the clouds department. But seriously this is a nice resource if you need to create a sky.
Photoshop Brushes - This site claims to be the “Largest Photoshop Brush Resource Site on The Internet”, they may even be right.

Hopefully this is enough to keep you busy for the weekend!And since we’ve already seen all these cool things you could leave us a reply with some more cool stuff to keep us busy in the weekend.

Happy reading,

the Quest3D|Log team